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Google Introduces Colorful searches in Image Search

With just few days of Yahoo Revamping it's Image Search it was now the turn of Google to come up with some very unique feature with it's image searches, and it did with a bang. Google Images introduced the very unique concept of segregating the images by colors. Your images can be in RED, or BLUE, or GREEN etc, Google Image Search will recognize it and will display accordingly as the the color selected. The user can use Google Image color filter in image searches. I did image search for ROSE, and found these interesting images, starting from showing in all colors To Purple, To Yellow, To Red, It's so much fun to see the type of images with specific colors. It not only applies to flowers, animals etc, it applies to everything labelled as image. Not only this you can further segregate your search results to new refinements to Images of all sizes - which is further refined as Extra Large Large Medium Small Any Content - which is further refined as News Content Faces Clip A...

13 Best URL Shortner Services

These days there is the necessity for making the website URL's to be short in order to post more content on the social media sites like Twitter etc, where you need to tell in 140 characters what you are doing and can place a URL for your blog, etc in those same 140 characters. So as such it becomes important to reduce the length of the URL, to make the update more informative. There are a many websites which offer shortening of your long web addresses into a tiny short URL, and that short URL will be redirecting to the main web address for that particular content. Here is the list of some of the best websites offering URL Shortening Services , here we go 1) BUDURL BudURL is more than just a url shrinking tool – a lot more. Once a url has been turned into a BudURL, you can track click information that will reveal a tremendous amount of information about the click activity of each link. 2) BIT.LY bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length m...

Google Analytics Checklist

Google Analytics is the best online tool available to track down your visitors. Moreover it's free and does not require any set up costs also. All requir is to install the tracking code on the pages to be tracked of the website, just before the end body tag of the page. Here in this post I have tried to mention the basic required Google Analytics Checklist, which is the best way to get started for keeping your visitors tracked. I found this post very informative as well as interesting, so thought of mentioning it on the blog itself. Google Analytics Checklist Getting Started   Installing Tracking Code : Install the tracking code and start viewing the reports in 24hrs Data Interpretation : Learn how to interpret the data on the Analytics Videos on Youtube Getting Started Guide : Explore the interface, learn how to read basic reports     Custom Reporting   Custom Reporting : The cool feature which allows you to drag and drop the boxes, and create custom reports for...

Yahoo Image Search Revamped

Yahoo has customized it's image search and is now providing with the very trendy and eye catchy larger view of the image for the users. The new sleek interface of the image comes with the image preview at the left along with the image size, and the information about the image (where the actual image is hosted). On to the right there are other options of the images. And to the bottom there is the full preview of the image. I personally feel this to be very nice and appealing to users, and more than that it makes the search more trendy and interesting. Go ahead and try your own. New Image Search Preview This is what the new improved search for images look like, Source : YSearchBlog

How to Optimize for Singular and Plural Keywords

When it comes to optimizing the webpage for a singular and a plural keyword, it becomes difficult to do the same. There are techniques which can be applied to achieve the desired optimization of the page, like creating two pages, one for a singular keyword and other for the plural one. But at times it's not possible always to create the pages, and then optimize them accordingly. Moreover those pages will be nearly same and will make less sense to the users. Say for example, Keyword 1 - [SEO Advantage] Keyword 2 - [SEO Advantages] So creating two pages wont make much difference to the users, and on the other hand will be carrying much of the same information. Example Title tag using both the keywords - SEO Advantage, Top SEO Advantages but it looks rather spammy and may not yeild desired results. So here is the problem, but the titles of the webpage can be optimized. Here's the trick; Use both the keywords in such a manner so that the TITLE should make some sense to the users, ...

Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters

Firefox is said to be the "Paradise for Webmasters" And I do believe in that, not because I am a frequent user of Firefox and love the browser very much, but because of the functionality and the features Firefox provides are just mind blowing. Firefox comes with such a vast list of addons for every user online, weather it be a programmer or a normal user there is something or the other for every one. Here I am going to provide the list of the Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters. So, I go my list for the webmaster addons provided by firefox, 5 Best Firefox Addons for Webmasters 1) Google Tool Bar for Firefox I would like to give the first credit in the list to the Google Tool Bar for Firefox. As we all know about the feature and the benefits Google Toolbar provides is just awesome. There are some worth mentioning like, Google Toolbar Page Rank - A measure to value the relevancy of the webpage by providing it a Page Rank. It goes from 0 (least) to 10 (the maximum) Cached Snap...

SEO Concepts

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the key to the success to any businesses that are online. Search Engine Optimization is a process to promote the business/website online in an organic way, so that the optimized website shows in the top results for the optimized keyword, in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. So as such it's of so much importance to optimize your website and further most important thing is how to optimize the website. This post relates to all the major optimizing techniques which if followed, will never let you or your website down. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Concepts Title Tag The TITLE TAG is the most important tag as SEO point of view. It helps to create the theme of the webpage to the search engine spiders and users eye. It defines the title of the web page. The title tag is located in the head section of the website, and is shown as the heading of the website in the search results listing. As such the title is very important, and it sh...

Importance of 3 Way Link Building

3 way link building in layman terms can be said as "Website A links to Website B, and Website B links to Website C and therefore Website C links to Website A" Seems somewhat similar like an old concept right ;), yep indeed it is the zeroth law of thermodynamics, which states that "If object A is in thermal equilibrium with object B, and object B is in thermal equilibrium with object C, then object C is also in thermal equilibrium with object A." - Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics Any ways keeping concepts of Physics aside, and on to the original topic, this is what a pictorial view can be Importance of 3 Way Link Building Technique Let us see why we should do 3 way link building, and what benefits it carries, which can give a better picture to understand what actually 3 way is. Here we are, - The first thing in 3 way link building is that it's not counted as reciprocal link building technique, which is counted of less importance these days by search engines. It...

Local SEO Guide

Local SEO Guide
The Local SEO Guide - the key steps and best practices to boost your local SEO and ensure that your website ranks prominently in local search results.